I will let guille and pavel reply because they know. Sven guille and/or Pavel sent a mail a while ago explaining all the different stages.
What I want is that we continue shrinking the core and get a modular system. We are getting there for real. ;) Stef On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > What is the story around PharoMinimal and related images ? > > Is there a writeup somewhere with instructions ? > > I see that we get **FANTASTIC** startup speed with it: > > $ cat /etc/issue > Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS > > $ ./pharo --version > 5.0-201708271955 Sun Aug 27 20:09:20 UTC 2017 gcc 4.6.3 [Production Spur VM] > CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.2265 uuid: > 76b62109-629a-4c39-9641-67b53321df9a Aug 27 2017 > StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.2262 uuid: > 8b531242-de02-48aa-b418-8d2dde0bec6c Aug 27 2017 > VM: 201708271955 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $ > Date: Sun Aug 27 21:55:26 2017 +0200 $ > Plugins: 201708271955 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $ > Linux testing-gce-ebf45dd8-6a4c-43a5-abd0-e5d8673d05a4 3.13.0-115-generic > #162~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 24 16:47:06 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > plugin path: /home/audio359/pharo7/pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-201708271955 > [default: /home/audio359/pharo7/pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-201708271955/] > > $ curl get.pharo.org/70-minimal | bash > ... > > $ ./pharo Pharo.image printVersion > [version] 'Pharo7.0' > 'Pharo-7.0+alpha.build.172.sha.d13eed2f80fe19f29fd85ede8c4809d6a6986d4f (32 > Bit)' > > $ time ./pharo Pharo.image eval '5 factorial' > 120 > real 0m0.083s > user 0m0.034s > sys 0m0.042s > > That is less than 1/10 of a second on a simple server ! Wow. > > Loading new code in that image seem hard though. > > I see that in http://files.pharo.org/image/70/ there are Pharomonticello & > Pharometacello variants. > > Any pointers on usage/meaning ? > > Thx, > > Sven
